Last month's
Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki is still being talked about today,
even after Trump clarified his agreement that Russia attempted to
meddle in America's election. Correcting “would” to “wouldn't”
in a press conference the next day, Trump clarified his stance on
Russian meddling—but it was not good enough for the mainstream
media, who had already lambasted him for throwing America's
intelligence agencies under the bus, because they were set on perpetuating that
narrative long before the summit even happened. In all of their
theatrical outrage, the media forgot to give Trump credit for telling
the truth about how the Obama Administration was aware of Russian
meddling but did nothing.

Going as far back as
2014, Congressman Devin Nunes warned about Russia's influence on
other democracies and Putin's growing aggressions. Writing for The
Washington Times, Nunes said:

Public diplomacy will be a vital element of a
new Russia policy – we must stop ceding the battle of
ideas to our opponents without putting up a fight. If Putin became
convinced that his belligerence would lower his standing among his
own people rather than elevate his popularity to record levels, he
may think twice before undertaking further foreign adventures.

The damage already done to the Russian economy
does not seem to affect Putin’s calculations.

While he may be willing to sacrifice Russia’s
own economy for his geo-political ambitions, we cannot afford to be a
mere bystander as his destabilizing actions begin to threaten the
economies of the Baltics and other NATO allies, possibly including
our own.

As far back as 2014,
how could any American president doubt that election meddling would
be a possible tactic for Vladimir Putin and his “geo-political
ambitions”? Immediately following the referendum in Crimea, the
American establishement accused Russia of meddling in the vote and
rigging the outcome.

Apparently, Barack
Obama spent eight years in the White House acting completely
oblivious to Russia's geo-political ambitions. Obama himself tried to
make a fool of Mitt Romney by pointing out an assesment from his 2010
book, “No Apology: The Case For American Greatness”, in
which Romney called Russia one of the biggest geo-political threats
to the United States. Mockingly, Obama chided Romney to rave reviews
from America's mainstream legacy media.

Almost six years later,
here we are, accepting Russia as America's biggest geo-political foe.
Everyone at CNN is on board, everyone at the DNC is on board and even
some Republicans are on board—but Republicans have mostly been on
board since 2014.

The question is not
whether Russia tried to meddle in America's 2016 election, the
question is whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russians to rig
the 2016 presidential election. The media has spent a good part of
the last two years attempting to conflate the two. The hardest pill
for America's left to swallow is that Trump campaigned on improving
relations with Russia and Americans voted for him. Ever since, the
Russia collusion narrative has amounted to Trump denying collusion
and then having his words spun into a denial of Russian meddling.

Russia meddling in our
elections and Trump colluding with Russia are two very separate
topics.

During his Helsinki
summit with Putin, Trump gave the mainstream media exactly what they
wanted when he misspoke and said, “I don't see any reason why it
would be Russia.” The next day, he corrected his statement to
“wouldn't”. Unfortunately, it was too late and the damage was
done. Trump's past admissions on Russian meddling no longer mattered
to journalists.

In June of 2017, Trump
admitted Russian meddling in a tweet criticizing Obama. This was
reported by Business
Insider:

President Donald Trump appeared to admit that
Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election in a Friday
night tweet in which he criticized Barack Obama for his handling of
Russia's cybertattacks that were meant to swing the election away
from Hillary Clinton.

"Just out: The Obama Administration knew
far in advance of November 8th about election meddling by Russia. Did
nothing about it. WHY," Trump asked.

In February of this
year, Trump's White House acknowledged Russian meddling. This was
reported by many mainstream sources, including Bloomberg:

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
acknowledged on Tuesday that Russia attempted to interfere in the
2016 elections but said the efforts didn’t play a role in President
Donald Trump’s victory.

“It’s very clear that Russia meddled in the
election. It’s also very clear Russia didn’t have an impact on
the election,” Sanders said at a briefing today. "And it’s
also very clear that the Trump campaign didn’t collude with the
Russians in any way for this process to take place."

The president spent much of the holiday weekend
tweeting about the Russia investigation after Special Counsel Robert
Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals on charges that they
carried out a multimillion-dollar operation to depress support for
Democrat Hillary Clinton and boost backing for Trump in the 2016
election.

In most of their
reporting on this, the mainstream media had only one thing in mind:
continue conflating Russian meddling and Trump collusion. By
publishing big headlines about Trump admitting meddling, mainstream
journalists thought they could sell it as Trump admitting collusion.

This acts as more
evidence that journalists will never be satisfied until Trump is
impeached and a majority of Americans believe he colluded with
Russia.

Following his Helsinki
meeting, the spin was about making Trump look like a hostage to
Putin. Before that, it was about linking “meddling” and
“collusion” to make him look guilty. Journalists have proven that
they will adapt to any given situation in order to destroy the Trump
presidency. When he is admitting meddling, he is admitting
collusion—but when he is denying meddling, he is covering up
collusion. It is a total lose-lose situation for Donald Trump, no
matter what he says on the topic of Russian meddling.

Had Donald Trump not
misspoke and instead said, “I don't see any reason why it wouldn't
have been Russia,” the mainstream narrative would have revolved
around speculating what he and Putin spoke about behind closed doors
for two hours, rather than about Trump being bold and standing up to
Putin. The narrative would have been about creating suspicion over
Trump's rebuke of Putin. Going into Helsinki, Trump was a loser in
the eyes of the legacy media—no matter the real outcome.

In 2016, the Obama
Administration was aware of Russia's attempts to meddle in America's
elections. Donald Trump is accurate when he says that Obama did
nothing about it because he (and the rest of the Democratic
establishment) thought Hillary Clinton was going to win. The Obama
Administration wasn't willing to change the trajectory of what polls
showed would be a successful election for Democrats and Clinton.
Obama did not want to add fuel to the conspiracies out of fear that
it might somehow help Donald Trump—who was already complaining that
the election would be “rigged”.

If Democrats truly
believe that Russia changed the results of the presidential election
and helped Donald Trump become president, they have no one else to
blame but Barack Obama—the man who spent eight years denying
Russia's geo-political tactics and who let Russia annex Crimea and
send swarms of “Russian bots” into America's electoral
battlefield to spread fake news.

For your viewing
pleasure, here is Barack Obama saying, “Of course the election
won't be rigged. What does that mean? This will be an election
like every other election.” (1:45)